M-S-W-Media Hello and welcome to the Daily Beans for Tuesday, October 3rd, 2023.

Today, Trump's fraud trial in New York is underway with Judge Angeron Presiding.

California Governor Gavin Newsom has appointed Lafonda Butler to fill the Senate seat left vacant

by the passing of Diane Feinstein. An appeals court has upheld the Tennessee and Kentucky

bans on transgender care for minors. North Carolina Republicans are creating a secret police force.

Matt Gates is threatening to oust Kevin McCarthy as speaker, but so far, he's all talk no action.

The Nobel Prize for Medicine has been awarded to Carrico and Weissmann for their work on the

development of the COVID-19 vaccines. Bernie Karek has been subpoenaed by the Fulton County DA

and has asked for immunity. Elon Musk has been sued for defamation.

Capital police investigation into the fire alarm confirms representative Bowman's account

of what happened, and just as Clarence Thomas has actually recused himself from a case.

I'm Allison Gill and I'm Dana Goldberg.

He recused himself from a case, Dana. It's shocking. It's shocking.

I am clutching my, what's the opposite of clutching your pearls? I don't know. I have,

I have the vapors. No, that's the same. I can't, I'm speechless. Let's just put it that way.

I'm actually surprised, but obviously he thought maybe this would show that he's not corrupt,

which he is corrupt, but about he was saving face somehow, and it's, it's very confusing, but.

And again, I'm not throwing him a parade. He's not a fucking hero. We need to do exactly.

All right, so happy Tuesday, happy Tuesday everyone. I'll be spending today and tomorrow up on

the hill lobbying for funding for Ukraine. Now Wednesday is my dad's birthday, and he would have

been 80. And so I'm very proud to honor his legacy as a veteran who fought for democracy abroad

against Russia during the Cold War by fighting here for funding to end the threat Russia poses

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